Shifting and settling

I have been laying a bit low of late. One of my cats does this thing, she goes under the bed for hours and then comes out with showing a slight physic shift. I think I am going through my version.
It's been four months since left the office, I love not being in an office, and four months since I left the people I saw every day, many whom I like and care about and miss, which takes some getting used to. My 'new' life is beginning to feel like mine and I have these surges of gratitude that I have been given the wherewithal and courage to make it real. Gratitude also for the people in my life, my husband, my amazing friends (those I see and those I can't all the time), the ladies and a few gentlemen.
I like playing with my new camera, here is Chris showing off the nice results in low light without flash and Caitlin, the daughter of our dear friends. Caitlin, a very cool person and great at improv, hates to have her photo taken but here she is all lovely on Thanksgiving ( taken with the wacky nostalgia setting on the camera).
Chris and I are getting ready for a road trip to Ohio to visit Amy and Jenny. I'm betting I'll have something to say and show about that when I get back.

Life Goes On

There was news from the AP this week; a number of people were laid off, some very dedicated, hardworking long-timers and one that was long past due. My heart goes out to those who were unfairly turned into a number and for the one I agreed with, well it's closure on a time that was hard but transforming for me.
I am a grateful and busy little bee. We are all over town winterizing irrigation systems and fountains. I'm really tired at the end of the day, not exhausted/stressed, just down-right, entitled to be, tired. I also got my first bonus, a new camera, Canon s90.
So here are photos taken with the new camera; our cats, an amazing water-wall fountain Chris built river stone-by-river stone in the backyard of a brownstone, a skylight in a cityscape and a close-of of what I look at all day instead of a computer.
I am identifying with the seasons- changing, ever changing.

Fall...ing in love with seasons

We have been driving uptown, downtown, crosstown and then doing it again to winterize the irrigations systems and fountains, there are more than 80 accounts. It involves a compressor and while I am having a great time learning and working it's not so sexy for photographs, so here are some recent moments, which includes a trip to the beach with Christian, Chris's nephew, and his bride Claudia. The newlyweds stopped in the Big Apple for a few days on the way back to Switzerland from Hawaii.